Question: Why does Emma Joyce include these people in the article? Below
activist Ibram X. Kendi
anti-racism," Carmen Morris,
Lybra Clemons, the chief diversity officer
Clemons further noted that antiracism "is about self-awareness and taking full accountability of who you are.
"Point: Antiracism Is Necessary to Dismantle Racism and Transform Society" by Emma Joyce . Antiracists have argued that it is necessary to be actively antiracist because inaction allows the current social system-which they consider fundamentally racist-to continue unchanged. In this view, anyone not making an active effort to change the system is perpetuating2 racism. The prominent antiracist activist Ibram X. Kendi famously stated that an idea, person, or policy cannot be "not racist"; they are either racist or antiracist. As a group of researchers wrote in an editorial for PLOS Computational Biology, "If you are benefiting from the oppression of others and choosing not to acknowledge and dismantle it, your compliance perpetuates the system." They suggested that those who are not marginalized3 need to "move beyond passive allyship and become active 'coconspirators' against racism." Antiracism advocates have often suggested that existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are not sufficient to combat racism because they do not encourage personal responsibility and active efforts to combat racism. They argue that change at an organizational level requires individuals to recognize their complicity4 in racism and take action against it. "Organizational change will only be developed through the establishment of an organizational culture of anti-racism," Carmen Morris, a diversity consultant, wrote in a 2020 piece for Forbes. Similarly, Lybra Clemons, the chief diversity officer at the company Twilio, emphasized that antiracism is not just "a more elevated term for diversity, equity inclusion," as quoted by CNBC's Make It in 2022. Clemons further noted that antiracism "is about self-awareness and taking full accountability of who you are. We are actively promoting equity and racial justice through consistent, deliberate decisions that we make." Proponents5 of antiracism have also emphasized the need for equity of outcomes rather than equal or identical treatment of all people, and have made the case that sometimes, treating different groups differently is necessary to achieve this. In a notable opinion supporting affirmative action, US Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun wrote, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." The authors of the PLOS Computational Biology editorial agreed with this sentiment, asserting that "temporarily assisting an underrepresented racial group to achieve equity is not the same thing as perpetuating inequality of wealth and power of the overrepresented group." Antiracists have argued that racism does not create a healthy society for anyone, including White people. Kendi, for example, published an article in The Atlantic in 2022 about the dangers of White supremacy to White children. He noted that White teenagers who accepted White supremacist beliefs were more likely to engage in violence, which could harm them and other White children as well. "Defending kids against white-supremacist grooming keeps all kids safe," he wrote. In a 2022 interview in Ebony, Kendi further argued that not challenging racist ideas allows White children to develop the idea that the color of their skin makes them special, and that this might make them less motivated to work to be good people in general: "White children need to realize they're special when they're being nice to others, but they're not special because of their skin tone," he noted. Need Assignment Help?